Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Valuable Features

FarrukhSyed - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Hitachi is far superior to other storage platforms I've used. The architecture is strong. The management software is more powerful and easier to use. The Hitachi platform performs well. IOPS is a commercial operation's main concern. Hitachi has good IOPS numbers. 

IOPS, latency, and availability are the essential metrics for a commercial bank with thousands of branches. We don't worry about our banking applications because Hitachi passes all the tests for performance and availability.

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Ozair Amin - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Manager - Infrastructure at Synergy Computers

The most valuable features are external storage virtualization and the 100 percent data guaranteed availability.

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Joshua Kurian - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Technical Architect at StarOne IT Solutions

The valuable features for data management include deduplication and compression without performance impact, and the ability to virtualize old storage, making migration seamless.

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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform
March 2024
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JS
Head of Information Technology at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Storage is the most valuable feature.

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Andy Chen - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at Coming Computer and IT services

We've dealt recently with virtual storage. We use the 500-series.

The main benefit of the solution is its reliability.

The solution has a pretty long history of working with different industries. It's easy to coordinate experience. When my customers brought up potential issues with the Hitachi consultant, they seemed to always be able to find a solution to the problem or questions.

The Hitachi roadmap, in terms of adopting new technologies, is very strong. Its roadmap is important to our organization's strategy. 

We are extremely satisfied with the solution. We've been working with them for more than 20 years.

We'd be very likely to recommend the solution to others. I'd give it a ten out of ten in terms of the likelihood of recommending it to others.

The IOPS and latency are okay, however, they aren't the best. There are others on the market that handle it better. They are pretty good with their approach, however. The customer won't complain too much. We have SQL, for example, and it works quite well.

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Mir Gulzar Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Synergy Computers

The VSP is a machine that works 24/7 throughout the year. The most valuable feature is that it has "eight nines" availability, 99.999999 percent of the time. That is the main selling point. 

Another selling point is the IOPS of Hitachi systems; they are very high and others cannot match them.

Those are the two bullet points: Availability and performance. Hitachi is a best-of-breed storage system.

In addition, there is an effective capacity guarantee. It's a question of virtualization. There is a basic, physical, usable capacity, and effective capacity. Effective capacity is what you get after compression. Hitachi has very good compression, offering a 7:1 compression ratio in their flash boxes. But the guaranteed compression ratio is 4:1 because compression depends on the application and use case. Effectively, on average, we guarantee a compression ratio of 4:1 and there will be no performance degradation.

Also, once the solution has been completely deployed, management of it is easy.

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CV
Consultant at Telcel

One of the features, for us, that is important is the monitoring platform integrated into the solution. It has all the elements that we need to see, at all times, to be sure the platform is working right.

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Alexey Rogov - PeerSpot reviewer
Lean manager at Gazprombank

Data optimization, compression, and deduplication are the most important features for us.

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MarcioOkubo - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at Storageone

Its resilience is the most valuable.

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Ramil Cerrada - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution lead at Globe Mobile

The Hitachi VSP has significantly improved data storage scalability by addressing various issues. Through their research and development efforts, they've incorporated customer feedback regarding deployment speed and performance requirements.

The tool's impact on data retrieval times is primarily seen in performance and reliability. It has proven to be more reliable. Speed in restoration varies depending on the nature of the backup or image being restored.

Its most valuable feature is the centralized consolidation portal. In terms of performance and agility, the Hitachi VSP stands out against competitors primarily due to its reliability and storage performance capabilities.

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Christoph Darazs - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The deduplication is useful for us because we don't have that much money for our lab infrastructure. Deduplication means we have more storage available. And the IOPS are really fast.

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PS
IT-chef at a logistics company with 51-200 employees

Reliability, compression, and speed are the most valuable features.

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Paolo Brega - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Developer Manager & Marketing Manager at TAI Software Solution

It is very flexible, and it is very useful when you want to virtualize different storage from different vendors.

It is absolutely reliable.

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AM
Associate Vice President at Yotta Infrastructure Solutions LLP

The efficiency ratio is just as high as advertised. It's very high relative to other storage solutions as well. The compression and deduplication capabilities are also very high.

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MO
Solution Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

What I like best about Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is that it's a fast storage solution. It also has reliable models. The sales support is also good for this product. Even the pricing for it is good.

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CK
Engineer at Innovo

The most valuable feature of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series is the platform and overall usage has been good. We have not had very many issues.

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RM
Storage Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The active-active option seemed to be working well and overall, it was a solid product.

It performed well and the software offerings were solid.

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Ali Yazıcı - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Service Manager at Kuveyt Turk Participation Bank

It is robust. It doesn't need too much troubleshooting. It is a good device.

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RM
Storage Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The performance was decent. 

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VA
Senior Manager -Datacenter Planning and Operations at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The performance is very good. 

The size of the storage is very good.

We use many of the enterprise features in production. 

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KM
Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have many different types of replication, such as remote and drop local replication. All these features and licenses are already available. These are basic features available in the current model. Additionally, the performance has been good in our experience.

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HL
Senior Manager Operational Services at Orange

The high performance of flash storage is especially valuable to us.

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German Vazquez - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at Secretaria de Educacion del Gobierno del Estado de Mexico

The most valuable features in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series are Shadowimage, easy to manage equipment, and upgrading the firewire is very simple.

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RP
Solutions Consultant at Revera Limited

The most valuable features of this solution are its Data Mobility and High-performance flash capabilities.

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HS
Storage & Virtualization Team Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I found the Hitachi GAD, Global Active Device feature, most valuable because it enables direct access to the same volume from different physical sites.

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it_user289782 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Architect at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

The first thing that attracted this model to us was the non-disruptive migration. We had a very large database application that was on older gear and needed to be migrated to these arrays. We had experience with virtualizing behind an array and moving applications and data but this made it even better.

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GL
Sales Engineer at Orient Logic

The product provides a good storage space.

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Adeniyi Oluwole - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Product Manager at Mitsumi Nigeria Limited

What I like about this solution is that you can ask to print the document function with the keyboard functions. You can always go back and hit the enter button, without getting any downtime. That is one of the great uses for the solution.

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TE
Hardware Architect at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 Series exhibits good performance. It has a good IOPS (input/output operations per second), particularly 300 IOPS, so this is what I like about it.

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MB
Solution Architect, IT Consultant at Merdasco - Rayan Merdas Data Prosseccing

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G provides the always-availablHitachi Virtual Storage Platform G provides the always-available, agile and automated foundation needed for a trusted Continuous Cloud Infrastructure. Powered with Hitachi global storage virtualization, its new software capabilities unlock IT agility and enable the lowest storage TCO. This solution helps to provide more stability and high availability in Datacenters.e, agile and automated foundation needed for a trusted Continuous Cloud Infrastructure. Powered with Hitachi global storage virtualization, its new software capabilities unlock IT agility and enable the lowest storage TCO. This soultion helps to provies more stability and high-avalbility in Datacenters.

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MR
Storage Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The most valuable aspects of this solution are the storage system and availability.

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KA
Chief Technology Officer at perfekt

Its scalability and performance are the most valuable. It is quite scalable and has a huge capacity.

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DM
Chief System Engineer at a media company with 501-1,000 employees

It is a very reliable storage solution.

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MB
Solution Architect, IT Consultant at Merdasco - Rayan Merdas Data Prosseccing

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F provides the always-available, agile and automated foundation needed for a trusted Continuous Cloud Infrastructure. Powered with Hitachi global storage virtualization, its new software capabilities unlock IT agility and enable the lowest storage TCO.

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RB
Senior Customer Service Engineer at DP IRAN

The solution is very user-friendly in terms of maintenance and configuration. It's also possible to connect the solution to other storage management solutions.

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GA
Senior technical and storage expert at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It's best features are its reliability and stability.

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OS
Technical Consultant at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees

The most valuable feature is that you can use it with all deployment models.

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VK
CISO at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

This is a good product with high capabilities and high reliability.

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AB
Team Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The feature I like best is the stability of the hardware.

I like the UI that has recently been launched in the Hitachi help center.

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Buyer's Guide
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.